Vehicle-wheel.



PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

N0 8492062. c. A; GAULD.

VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED MAB.27,-1906.

'rn STATES CHESTER ARTHUR GAULD, OF

' VEHiCLE PATENT. OFFICE.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA. WH. EEL.

' Application filed March 27.

certain new and useful Improvements in Vehiole-Wheels and I do hereby declare that the QL1S kinds of vehicles, but more following is a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the construction and operation of tile My invention relates to improvements in vehicle-wheels which can be adapte'd'to variparticularly to automobiles; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a non-puncturable tire; second, a light and durable tire; third, a tire that will run as smoothly and easy as a pneumatic one fourth, a tire that will possess the resiliency of a pneumatic tire with the strength of a solid tire. these objects'by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my vehicle wheel. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line a; 9:. Fig. g is across-section Specification of Letters Patent.

I attain Patented April 2. 1907. 1906. Serial No. 308,243.

material, and the outside casingis of rubber g, which will be molded with two annular projections h h, which will be made to fit into the annular grooves i of the metallic rim 0.

The inner sides of the said metallic rim 0 are slightly beveled outward in the center, as shown ati Figs. 2 and 3, vfor the purpose of tightening the tire in place.

rubber covering 9 are laced together in the center of the inner side by lacing st1ings j, as shown at Fig. 2.

number are on the opposite side of the wheel,

as shown by dotted lines at Fig. 2, and it will further be observed slightly hollowed on he rim to allow the circumference of the rim to be contracted.

Having thus described my device and its In a vehicle-wheel a-wood felly of a wheel formed convex on the rear or I concave on the frontv or opposite side,'a-corof metal rim. Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the screws employed in securing .the Wood felly to the metal rim.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the severalviews.

A, Fig. 1, represents a side elevation of the entire wheel, consisting of a wood felly b, size two and five-eighths inches by one inch and a quarter and containing twelve spokes, (more orless.)

c is a metallic rim formed in two sections, as shown at Figs; 2 and 3, about half an inch thick and circular-shaped in form, being convex on the outside and concave on the inside. Also each of the said sections are provided with an annular groove 91, practically of-the form shown at Figs. 2 and 3.

The said sections are secured to the wood felly by a series of set-screws (Z, passing in an alternate 0blique direction through the. Wood felly 1) into the metallic rim 0, as shown at Figs. 2 and 3. The said set screws. are about two 'and a quarter inches long. I

The center of the tire consists of solid cork respondingly-shaped metallic rim, formed in beveled slightly outward, and made to fit in and be secured to the-said concavo-convex side of said metallic rim, a solid outer tire of a annularly, and inclosed in a light but strong material, as duck canvas, open along the center of the inside, and laced tight by-s'trings, and covered on the outside with a cover of elastic material, as rubber, also open'along the center of the inside and lacked to tighten Ontario, the 20th day e, covered with a heavy duck canvasf or like WM. BRUc'E.

Both. the canvas portion f and the outer and the heads of said bolts are countersunk,

that the'wood felly is the side next the metal-' =two longitudinal halves, their inner sides.

it;ai'ound the tire portion, the said rubber- Fig. l'shows threebolt-heads d. A similar advantages, what I claim as my invention,- and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

felly, two annular grooves formedon the-inlight and fungous material, as cork, formed 5 

